In the 7th Term Collective Agreement negotiations, which concern millions of public officials, the public employer submitted its first offer.
While the first offer, which was below the Central Bank's inflation forecasts, was 14+9 percent for 2024 and 6+5 percent for 2025, the Chairman of the Conscious Teachers Association (ÖĞ-DER) Numan Gökmen reacted to the proposal and supported the strike decision. announced that they will.
Pointing out that even the child on the street knows that inflation is at least 100 percent, Gökmen emphasized that it is clear that the increase will continue.
"In order to close the budget deficit, the government takes back the so-called raises, which it gave to its own citizens, with the price hikes it rained on the bazaars before they even went to their pockets. The public employee cannot close the black holes in the family budget with the so-called raise. In 12 months of the year, there is always a budget deficit. He does not realize that he is now receiving a raised salary. Because in our country, governments calculate the improvement to be made for civil servants not by considering the realities of life, but based on the inflation figure they predict for the next year. Already in the second half of each year, due to tax brackets of 15 percent and 20 percent, it receives back from the employees many times more than it gives. This tax bracket should be removed from salaries immediately and immediately first", Gökmen said.
“GOVERNMENT'S INFLATION AND PEOPLE'S INFLATION ARE DIFFERENT”
Reminding that the government could not keep up with its past inflation forecasts, Gökmen pointed out that the inflation forecasts did not come true and the inflation passed over the civil servants like a cylinder many times.
"To show that inflation is less than 100 percent, when all the facts are clear, is to make fun of public employees with low and fixed incomes. The inflation of the government and the inflation of the people are different. TÜİK's inflation calculation and the kitchen calculation of public employees are in conflict. The officers' family ships are flooding. When we consider the increase individually, even the increase in domestic transportation alone, rent alone, only fuel, only electricity, natural gas and basic foodstuffs is not enough", Gökmen added.